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A frank, illuminating and incandescent memoir by a trailblazing scientist; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration in work and life; and a book that casts a whole new light on the natural world.

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Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren´s remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father´s laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life´s work.

Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren´s descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are.

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[Lab Girl] does for botany what Oliver Sacks´s essays did for neurology Michiko Kakutani New York Times

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Jahren, Hope Hope Jahren is
an award-winning scientist who has been pursuing independent research in
paleobiology since 1996. Recognized by Time in 2016 as one of the 100
most influential people in the world, she is the recipient of three Fulbright
Awards and served as a tenured professor at the University of Hawaii in
Honolulu from 2008 to 2016, where she built the isotope geobiology
laboratories. She currently holds the J. Tuzo Wilson professorship at the
University of Oslo, Norway.

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